How to avoid screen corruption?

Question

I'd been using Linux Mint MATE for years, and recently moved to Arch Linux with MATE Desktop Environment without any change of hardware or .vimrc. (By the way, I use no plugin.) After that, when I open a file on vim and

• scroll up/down

• or, minimize the window and un-minimize it later

• or, use "show deskop" functionality and then unuse it

, the screen is sometimes be corrupted in a way that the same lines are apparently duplicated. This has never occurred on Linux Mint on the same machine, and Linux Mint on MacbookPro.

For example, the first picture is a healthy state without any corruption.

The opened file consists only of ASCII characters (with UTF-8 encodings) and short enough not to cause memory problems. This screen can sometimes be (corruptions are underlined):

Pressing Ctrl+L to redraw the display solves the problem, but it is really annoying.

What is bad is that I don't know when it occurs. So I cannot reproduce the problem to debug or find the cause.

What I tried is

• uninstall Arch's original vim and compile vim from the official source, because I did so also on Linux Mint

• do some gpu settings

• unset TERM, COLORTERM or try many values of them according to scrolling is messed up and Vim NerdTree corrupts when using Tmux (NOTE: I do not use tmux or screen.)

• change HDMI-cable to a quality one

• change startup command bound to mate-terminal from the default bash to env TERM=xterm bash

• unset cursorline

• change terminal emulator from mate-terminal to gnome-terminal

• :set term=builtin_term (see help builtin-terms)

• :set nottybuiltin (this made the frequency of occurrence larger)

What I don't want to do is

• change font

• change desktop environment

Does anyone have an idea why that occurs? I really want to solve the problem.

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Environment:

I'll add any information if required.

~ $ neofetch
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 5.3.5-arch1-1-ARCH
Shell: bash 5.0.11
Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60.00Hz
Terminal: mate-terminal
CPU: Intel i5-7500 (4) @ 3.8GHz [39.0°C]
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Memory: 1405MiB / 15978MiB [=--------------]
CPU Usage: 2% [---------------]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8 

~ $ vi --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Oct  4 2019 02:04:19)
Included patches: 1-2109
Compiled by me
Huge version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl               -farsi             -mouse_sysmouse    -tag_any_white
+arabic            +file_in_path      +mouse_urxvt       -tcl
+autocmd           +find_in_path      +mouse_xterm       +termguicolors
+autochdir         +float             +multi_byte        +terminal
-autoservername    +folding           +multi_lang        +terminfo
+balloon_eval      -footer            -mzscheme          +termresponse
+balloon_eval_term +fork()            +netbeans_intg     +textobjects
+browse            +gettext           +num64             +textprop
++builtin_terms    -hangul_input      +packages          +timers
+byte_offset       +iconv             +path_extra        +title
+channel           +insert_expand     -perl              +toolbar
+cindent           +job               +persistent_undo   +user_commands
+clientserver      +jumplist          +postscript        +vartabs
+clipboard         +keymap            +printer           +vertsplit
+cmdline_compl     +lambda            +profile           +virtualedit
+cmdline_hist      +langmap           +python/dyn        +visual
+cmdline_info      +libcall           +python3/dyn       +visualextra
+comments          +linebreak         +quickfix          +viminfo
+conceal           +lispindent        +reltime           +vreplace
+cryptv            +listcmds          +rightleft         +wildignore
+cscope            +localmap          -ruby              +wildmenu
+cursorbind        -lua               +scrollbind        +windows
+cursorshape       +menu              +signs             +writebackup
+dialog_con_gui    +mksession         +smartindent       +X11
+diff              +modify_fname      +sound             -xfontset
+digraphs          +mouse             +spell             +xim
+dnd               +mouseshape        +startuptime       +xpm
-ebcdic            +mouse_dec         +statusline        +xsmp_interact
+emacs_tags        +mouse_gpm         -sun_workshop      +xterm_clipboard
+eval              -mouse_jsbterm     +syntax            -xterm_save
+ex_extra          +mouse_netterm     +tag_binary        
+extra_search      +mouse_sgr         -tag_old_static    
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc"
       defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK  -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.
0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/lib/libffi
-3.2.1/include -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/fribidi -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/li
bpng16 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libmoun
t -I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -pthread    -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT  -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORT
IFY_SOURCE=1       
Linking: gcc   -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,--as-needed -o vim   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -l
atk-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lharfbuz
z -lfontconfig -lfreetype  -lSM -lICE -lXpm -lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE  -lm -ltinfo -lelf -lnsl    -l
canberra  -lacl -lattr -lgpm -ldl           

By the way, I'm not experiencing the problem other than on vim (until today). less and any GUI applications like firefox work well.